Movies: Zak Kostopoulos

  • 2024
    Avant-Drag!

    Avant-Drag! (2024)

    Avant-Drag!

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    Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot hou...

    Avant-Drag!
  • 2023
    AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)

    AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…) (2023)

    AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)

    8.52023HD

    Greece, 1977. A proposed law brings gay men and “transvestites” together in a historic event and sparks the creation of the first Greek LGBT movement. For the next 13 years, AKOE and its magazine Amfi, would define the way LGBT Greeks think about the...

    AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)
  • 2023
    Grief – Those Who Remain

    Grief – Those Who Remain (2023)

    Grief – Those Who Remain

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    A descent into the world of mourning and loss through three homicide stories that shook Greek and European society: the cruel murders of Shahzad Luqman, Pavlos Fyssas, and Zak Kostopoulos. The grieving families of the victims converse with their abse...

    Grief – Those Who Remain
  • 2020
    Chained (Agora II)

    Chained (Agora II) (2020)

    Chained (Agora II)

    7.22020HD

    For four and a half years, between 2015 – 2019, acclaimed filmmaker Yorgos Avgeropoulos observed Greek society on multiple levels. As well as having exclusive access to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, he followed ...

    Chained (Agora II)
  • 2021
    Orfeas2021

    Orfeas2021 (2021)

    Orfeas2021

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    A retro-futurist story of utopian politics, ideological conflicts, supernatural leaders and totalitarian spectacle. Cyberpunk queer pirates against rainbow homo-capitalist normies. Revolution vs reformism; logic vs affect. The trappings of post-inter...

    Orfeas2021
  • 2020
    This is Right: Zak, Life and After

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After (2020)

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After

    02020HD

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After is a portrait of Zak Kostopoulos, a well-known queer AIDS activist who was publicly lynched to death in Athens in 2018. Zak's chosen family and community highlight Zak's activist life and the response that his murde...

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After
  • 2022
    Bitter September

    Bitter September (2022)

    Bitter September

    02022HD

    September 2018, a terrible assassination takes place in the center of Athens. Zak Kostopoulos, human rights activist and drag queen, is killed in the middle of the day in a busy street. At that moment, Sophia Farantatou is preparing a film about Zak ...

    Bitter September
  • 2020
    This is Right; Zak Life and After

    This is Right; Zak Life and After (2020)

    This is Right; Zak Life and After

    02020HD

    The voices of Zak Kostopoulo's community in a film about her, life and the after. This is Right: Zak, Life and After is a portrait of Zak Kostopoulos, a well-known queer AIDS activist who was publicly lynched to death in Athens in 2018. Zak's chosen...

    This is Right; Zak Life and After